Social Worker Role Play Reflection
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Social Worker Role Play Reflection
Social work is a practical based profession. It promotes social development, change, cohesion, and social empowerment (Ortiz & Harrell, 2018). Human beings are prone to social problems and conditions which require special attention—human beings prone to insatiable wants. Sometimes due to the desire to satisfy these wants, human beings may commit crimes. They may mess up with other people directly or indirectly (Tham & Lynch, 2019). Some other community members are faced with stressful circumstances, while others are traumatized. Social work persons normally have to use special skills to reach the client’s heart (Fryer & Boot, 2017). When I am communicating with a client, I am expected to use such skills to bring the client back to the fullness of life? Clients are different depending on their needs in which most of them a refaced with heavy situations they may not want to reveal to anyone they meet; therefore, they need to open up to people they trust and honor (Fryer & Boot, 2017). Social work may be a unique career that requires many psychological abilities for a person to handle different situations’ big life. Those who do not want to get much into movements establish an office as agencies to reach their clients over a video call or any other possible safe means.
Like in the provided video” call with Anmol Dhiren Shah,” based on a social work agency (Freed & Lim, 2020), after listening and watching this film, I realized it is a conversation between a 16 years old girl and a social worker. They were discussing the needs and situation of the girl (Othlinghaus & Hoppe, 2016). The video is based on a community setting in which they are courageously discussing the current situation.
First, the social work person can create a fearless environment by clarifying that the discussion is confidential (Fargion, 2018). And it is only shared between the two, the speaker and the respondent. The guy created this environment so that the client would feel secure and protected from other people. Trusting the social worker triggered the client to speak up about their problems and all challenges that she had faced(Blakemore & Agllias, 2019).
Moreover, the guy makes some introduction to the lady, after which she states about herself and the challenges she has passed through in her lifetime (Katz, McLeigh, & Arieh, 2019). The social worker had gathered enough information and was aware from the police that his new client had been involved in some minor crimes, and hence they can be sorted out from his end (Sasaki et al., 2017).
The social work person has good communication skills in which he uses a polite language. And with humility, he does not directly offend the client regardless of the criminal offenses she has committed (Stewart et al., 2020). It is good to discuss someone’s problem to correct peacefully and not reprimanding them (Muridzo & Chikadzi, 2020). When they get scared, they may not show up if we need them for professional follow-up.
Since the social work profession promotes justice and social fairness, the vulnerable are helped, and professional opportunity is sought for the client to benefit (Lundgren et al., 2017). While discussing with the client, the social worker has inquired about the client’s ambitions to join the school. However, the client is not interested in formal academics; instead, they propose a drama school to grow her talent and make a powerful actress (Bantjes & Swartz, 2018). The client also seems to have her needs met and satisfied through that discussion, and hence she is ready to avail herself for training.
The ecology systems theory defines the effects of family systems on individuals. And the functions of the family across the human life span (Saar‐Heiman, 2019). Sometimes when faced with tough family situations, it affects children, and maybe they cannot feel accommodated in the family Incase the family or parents does not know to bring people together or create understanding among family members.
Considering the theory of human behavior, the continuous transaction with the environment can be identified. The client committed some crimes due to a lack of food and could not tolerate her hungry situation (Joseph Jeyaraj & Wald, 2019). Systems may close or open boundaries; however, to the new client, she was lucky to get new opportunities as she committed crimes of stealing meals from restaurants to avoid starvation.
The social work person has inhibited creative thinking skills in which he has thought critically and identified the fitting career for his client, and now she can pursue it without straggling (Joseph Jeyaraj & Wald, 2019). It is important to open up and help teenagers whenever it is required to identify their future careers. Sometimes young people may lack guidance for the best career, and hence they may not have hope for any professional activity in their lives. It is not easily possible for them to identify the best career, and hence they may be discouraged in life.
The client seems to have some personal needs, and hence she is dependent on her friends who provide shelter and food with additional basic needs (Kang, Lim, & Park, 2020). The lady was only identified as needy after committing some crimes due to a lack of basic needs. People steal food staff due to hungry nothing more (Van Veelen, Pinker, Tingey, Aiken, & Eadson, 2019). It is very clear that the client, since she was a teenager, she could not contain her situation of starvation and stead she decided to steal some staff from the restaurant and after she was reported to the police for action. Police could not be happy holding in cells a person with minor crimes, and hence she was only directed to the needy agency for further intervention of her need. She seems to enjoy the offer, and hence she is ready to show up in case of any other update arising from the discussion.
The social work has embraced boundary setting skills as he has not taken advantage of the young girl’s vulnerability. The social worker seems to provide a solution to the needs of the client. He creates total trust and gives the client permission to access him whenever the need arises instead of using criminal tactics to get food (Cullen, Haney, Houser, Cao, & Mi, 2016) as she confesses from the police allegiance that she has been stealing foods from restaurants and hotels whenever she has nothing to eat. Sometimes people may be wicked, and once swerving small and vulnerable people, they may take advantage of their minority and victimize them. However, this social worker did not attempt to harass the hike sexually or soothe her in any way. Instead, he was direct to the needs and objectives, which enabled the girl to be so courageous and speak out all her problems to the agency.
The social worker was prepared to identify family violence when he inquired about the state of affairs between the client’s parents. She was free to explain that they sometimes fight; however, she is not concerned about them as they do not provide for her needs. Since it is not easy for a. Hold to live with her parents under normal conditions, the guy understood a big problem with her parents (Weaver, 2016). Even the child’s reactions when the parents were mentioned seemed to get more bored, and hence she could speak of their violence and encountered some misuse as the parents provided no care.
The social worker office also uses the prompting question to identify the truth from the client. For example, he asks the client the reason for string food, after which he prompts a question about what she likes to do most, after which she says that she loves watching movies and acting scenes and that she would like to be an actress (Smith et al., 2017). The client seems to have been emotionally abused as she looks withdrawn, and she does not have the zeal to see or live with her parents (Haanwinckel, Fawcett, & Garcia, 2018). Are interest seems to be gone and that she does not want to live with her parents anymore.
Conclusion
Generally, the social worker on duty has management to contact a sophisticated interview with the client who is sixteen years old. He Bagan by rapport creation via introduction and engagement skills. He goes even deep into the situations of the client who opens up totally without shying off. She has management to courageously speak out her problems, which can be solved by the agency. Since the support person has promised to reach his colleagues for further intervention. The information was given to the best of the parties.
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